Hello Skunks,
A while back, the list administrators wanted to implement some rules regarding off topic items,job advertisements and flaming,among other things but upon protests from many on the list (myself included),they shelved the idea. However, watching what goes on on the list day in day out, I think its time skunkworks developed some sort of method to SELF regulate.
My proposal is that the list admins come up with a set of rules that they think will help mitigate the problems most rampant on this list.We as skunkworks can then vote on the rules and choose to keep a number of them. e.g the admins come up with ten rules and we vote to keep five that we deem to be most important. This is basically a call for us to acknowledge that this list is presumed to carry the best brains in the techie world in Kenya and we should thus hold ourselves to a higher standard than would be acceptable were this not the case. The list is becoming a joke if it isn't already one. We can stop the rot. What do skunks think?
Written rules never work in such forums, John Doe. That is my experience. It's like expecting everyone to think the same. It's simply not that easy to achieve, unless we make everyone undergo military training, then implement military code of conduct!
These techies here wouldn't hear of that.
Just delete whatever you feel is inappropriate for your consumption. That is what I do.
As Saidimu says, the things discussed in this list rarely border on what we'd all think is appropriate for it.